Libertarians
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What Libertarians Don’t Get
“I think the two of them were having a bit of good time having a debate like you had at 2 a.m. in the morning when you’re going to college, but it doesn’t have a lot to do with anything.” Jon Kyl on Rand Paul's appearance on the Maddow show. Kyl seems to support the
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Libertarianism Defined
Here's an attempt: An ideology inspired by the hobgoblin that seduces messianicly adolescent minds who believe they've found the simple formula that will cure a complex world's ills.
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Growth Idolaltry
Just saw Douthat's Sunday column on the causes of inequality, so I thought I'd comment on it in the light of my last post. Here's his set up: The latest census figures show the gap between the wealthiest Americans and everybody else widening — rather than shrinking, as some economists expected — during the crash
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More on the Balance between Liberty and Equality
I've been thinking a lot about why this country almost broke apart in the 1860s, and why it's a good thing it didn't, and why the secessionist mentality lingers now as a destructive force in this country. In a globalizing world, the secessionist mentality is analogous to the adolescent who eats his dinner in his
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More on the Tension between Liberty and Equality
First line of Gettysburg address: Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Last line: . . . that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this